WEll, When you want to pir^H^H^H backup a dual layer movie from Netflix^H^H^H^H^H^H^H your movie library, you don't want to have to compress the video first. Now, you won't have to.
That's why it won't matter that it's more than one layer disks.
This is happening on Kangaraoo[sic] island, off the coast of south australia.
Koalas were introduced here by humans in the 1920's. They are not a natural part of the ecosystem.
Totally true... I do a lot of Unit testing... With.Net code, I use NUnit and LOVE it.
In C++, I always have a static method on each object I write that is called UnitTest(); This function calls the UnitTest on all objects on which it depends.
It throws if it fails...
That way, you just call ApplicationObject.UnitTest() and it tests the whole system. (there is an issue with some repeated tests, but who cares?)
Good engineering practices would have prevented offshoring because the software you get from properly engineered software is more stable and closer to the customers needs and because the level of feedback required for proper development would make the communications barrier an unacceptable hindrance.
Gotta say... that's hit the nail on the head and driven it right through the other side of the board.
Since December, we have done NOTHING but attend meetings and write excruciatingly detailed requirements documents, and crank out UML diagrams. Not a line of code has been written (besides a bit of prototyping).
I'm doing it because I have to. I see a lot of extra labor cost (I estimate at least $250k so far) and I don't think this process has helped us. I think we could have created an entire prototype since December and thrown it all away and been ahead of the game (assuming we'd learned valuable info from our mistakes)
Well... yeah... too much documentation gets you nothing too...
The balance is the most important thing.
I disagree with just sitting at the keyboard and coding too. You're using _code_ to determine requirements. That's equally as foolish as doing documentation for months with no code.
Early in the development cycle, as the RUP states, you are supposed to identify "Architecturally Significant Use Cases" and design and prototype them in the first couple iterations (iterations == Build a little - Test a little).
Thus, you are coding to identify issues, but you're not running blind and you're documenting WHAT you're doing, HOW you're doing it and WHY you're doing it.
If the UI is one of the significant things, you prototype the UI to see if your ideas are the same as the client's.
<rant> I'm sick of people saying that design is not needed because so many successful projects are done without it. That's such BS! We still have an ABYSSMAL success level on software projects in this country.
The reason most people don't like to design is that they are incapable of abstracting, or, as you seem to be, they don't realize that there are benefits to it. People are impatient and just want to "do something productive" now.
The appalling thing is that "success" in American software is actually a pretty easy thing to achieve. It's crazy what some people call "success".
If spending tons of money on something and then rewriting it in 4 years is your idea of success, you're nuts!
The comparison's been beaten to death, but I wouldn't want any software company building my car or my house. It would be worthless.
Software engineering was a requirement for CS at my college, Loyola College in Maryland (small but good CS dept), in the 80's... WTF is going on at the McCollege near you??
Call me US-centric, but I can't sit here and read the word "bollards" over and over again... it hurts my head.
It's like "mallards" and "bollocks" had a drunken tryst and gave birth to "bollards".
So... in my world, "bollards" means "the balls of a duck"!
I don't want to read about duck balls!
Postal Investigators??
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Officials at the Federal Trade Commission, who planned to announce the arrests in Washington on Thursday,
told U.S. postal investigators they had received more than 10,000 complaints about unwanted e-mails sent by the company. The U.S. attorney in Detroit, Jeffrey Collins, was expected at Thursday's announcement.
What does the post office have to do with anything??
Gotta say... I'm with you on this one... This sounded like some annoying SPAM mail that I get spouting off about how Bush/Kerry is evil because of X,Y and Z and that they're ruining America!
Looks like PJ forgot to take her Zoloft that morning...
Aristotle, Strabo, and Ptolemy all wrote that the earth was round.
One such method dealt with measuring the length of a stick at great distances and using the Pythagorean theorem to figure out how tall it _should_ have been. But, the stick turned out to be shorter... that meant that the surface of the earth was curved... no sun involved.
1) Well, if you think of it, we don't know if we're "on the surface" of the universe or not.
2) From inside the earth, we could send out vibrations and, based on the doppler effect (or something similar) measured reflected waves back.
3) You truly cannot say that, just because you're inside the earth, you can't measure its size.
- We're inside the Solar System, we measure its size.
- We're inside the galaxy, we measure its size.
- I'm inside my office, I can measure its size...
We see the outside of the funnel so that we can define the shape, but from the interior, it is just a curved or flat plane that we can only recognize by viewing from an all emcompassing view external. ...
Without the Universe in a 3D viewable environment and being just IT, then we can't define the shape meaningfully.
Umm... we proved that the world is round based on an "internal" view...
Do you think Ptolemy went up in a space capsule to see the shape of the earth before he told everyone it's round?? In 250 BC, Eratosthenes had calculated the size of the earth to within 10% of its actual size.
None of that was done "externally".
Anyway, I shall crawl back in my hole and wait for those much smarter than me to put me in my place.:-P
yeah... it could get that "O" ring worn in it from being next to that old crusty cracked condom you've been hoping to use since high school; thus rendering it unreadable.
Gotta hate not getting laid AND losing all your data...:)
Rockland, eh? Going down to the Seadog or Black Bull Tavern for a beer this weekend? Multiple members of my family live in that area, and I know the owners of the Black Bull... good friends with my step-brother.
there are people who place the movie in the projector (it's still film...) or projectors. They sit up there and make sure the projector is running properly.
What about this tells you that there are no more projectionists??
I believe that this statement was meant as sarcasm. The author was merely pointing out the futility of the "War on Drugs" which has really done nothing but put _many_ relatively innocent people behind bars for WAY too many years.
Basically, you can find kids lighting up joints on every college campus in the country (except maybe some of the Bible thumping ones)
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Unless you're flipping your DVDs to play them, this will hold them.
DVD-9 means single-sided, dual layer... That is an 8.5 GB DVD.
I haven't seen any double-sided, single-layer disks in a while (that's the one that's 9.4 GB).
T
WEll, When you want to pir^H^H^H backup a dual layer movie from Netflix^H^H^H^H^H^H^H your movie library, you don't want to have to compress the video first. Now, you won't have to.
That's why it won't matter that it's more than one layer disks.
How do you back up all your porn on just 1 DVD???
You might be able to mount the printer through Samba though.
You can keep one machine running the printer and then run software on the Linux boxen that prints to the windows printer through Samba.
N'est-ce pas?
Very insightful (hint!)...
.Net code, I use NUnit and LOVE it.
Totally true... I do a lot of Unit testing...
With
In C++, I always have a static method on each object I write that is called UnitTest(); This function calls the UnitTest on all objects on which it depends.
It throws if it fails...
That way, you just call ApplicationObject.UnitTest() and it tests the whole system. (there is an issue with some repeated tests, but who cares?)
T
So, you mean the same functionality that exists in Visual Studio 6 & VS.NET ??
What?
Gotta say... that's hit the nail on the head and driven it right through the other side of the board.
Well said!
Well... yeah... too much documentation gets you nothing too...
The balance is the most important thing.
I disagree with just sitting at the keyboard and coding too. You're using _code_ to determine requirements. That's equally as foolish as doing documentation for months with no code.
Early in the development cycle, as the RUP states, you are supposed to identify "Architecturally Significant Use Cases" and design and prototype them in the first couple iterations (iterations == Build a little - Test a little).
Thus, you are coding to identify issues, but you're not running blind and you're documenting WHAT you're doing, HOW you're doing it and WHY you're doing it.
If the UI is one of the significant things, you prototype the UI to see if your ideas are the same as the client's.
<rant>
I'm sick of people saying that design is not needed because so many successful projects are done without it. That's such BS! We still have an ABYSSMAL success level on software projects in this country.
The reason most people don't like to design is that they are incapable of abstracting, or, as you seem to be, they don't realize that there are benefits to it. People are impatient and just want to "do something productive" now.
The appalling thing is that "success" in American software is actually a pretty easy thing to achieve. It's crazy what some people call "success".
If spending tons of money on something and then rewriting it in 4 years is your idea of success, you're nuts!
The comparison's been beaten to death, but I wouldn't want any software company building my car or my house. It would be worthless.
T
Software engineering was a requirement for CS at my college, Loyola College in Maryland (small but good CS dept), in the 80's... WTF is going on at the McCollege near you??
T
Call me US-centric, but I can't sit here and read the word "bollards" over and over again... it hurts my head.
It's like "mallards" and "bollocks" had a drunken tryst and gave birth to "bollards".
So... in my world, "bollards" means "the balls of a duck"!
I don't want to read about duck balls!
Gotta say... I'm with you on this one... This sounded like some annoying SPAM mail that I get spouting off about how Bush/Kerry is evil because of X,Y and Z and that they're ruining America!
Looks like PJ forgot to take her Zoloft that morning...
T
OK, then forget about Eratosthenes...
Aristotle, Strabo, and Ptolemy all wrote that the earth was round.
One such method dealt with measuring the length of a stick at great distances and using the Pythagorean theorem to figure out how tall it _should_ have been. But, the stick turned out to be shorter... that meant that the surface of the earth was curved... no sun involved.
1) Well, if you think of it, we don't know if we're "on the surface" of the universe or not.
2) From inside the earth, we could send out vibrations and, based on the doppler effect (or something similar) measured reflected waves back.
3) You truly cannot say that, just because you're inside the earth, you can't measure its size.
- We're inside the Solar System, we measure its size.
- We're inside the galaxy, we measure its size.
- I'm inside my office, I can measure its size...
???
We see the outside of the funnel so that we can define the shape, but from the interior, it is just a curved or flat plane that we can only recognize by viewing from an all emcompassing view external.
...
:-P
;)
Without the Universe in a 3D viewable environment and being just IT, then we can't define the shape meaningfully.
Umm... we proved that the world is round based on an "internal" view...
Do you think Ptolemy went up in a space capsule to see the shape of the earth before he told everyone it's round?? In 250 BC, Eratosthenes had calculated the size of the earth to within 10% of its actual size.
None of that was done "externally".
Anyway, I shall crawl back in my hole and wait for those much smarter than me to put me in my place.
I like to think that I did just that
What is there about "(MAYBE!)" that you didn't understand??
yeah... it could get that "O" ring worn in it from being next to that old crusty cracked condom you've been hoping to use since high school; thus rendering it unreadable.
:)
Gotta hate not getting laid AND losing all your data...
Man is dead.
From his pity for God hath Man died.
This is not as Funny as it is Insightful. It does point out how disproportionate the penalties are...
the driver should get 5 years at least and the guy with the cam should get about 5 days... (MAYBE!)
Well, the rule is:
If you are married to your car, it can't testify against you.
Gotta get myself to the Preacher!
Rockland, eh? Going down to the Seadog or Black Bull Tavern for a beer this weekend? Multiple members of my family live in that area, and I know the owners of the Black Bull... good friends with my step-brother.
T
there are people who place the movie in the projector (it's still film...) or projectors. They sit up there and make sure the projector is running properly.
What about this tells you that there are no more projectionists??
Think.. it doesn't hurt too much.
I believe that this statement was meant as sarcasm. The author was merely pointing out the futility of the "War on Drugs" which has really done nothing but put _many_ relatively innocent people behind bars for WAY too many years.
Basically, you can find kids lighting up joints on every college campus in the country (except maybe some of the Bible thumping ones)